Quad Artera Pre Amplifier

Quad Artera Pre Amp

The new Artera Pre from Quad, Britain’s original high - end audio company, draws upon the company’s rich technical heritage whilst being a design firmly of the present. The first dedicated analogue preamplifier to join Quad’s Artera Series, the company’s flagship range of solid-state audio electronics, the Artera Pre reintroduces a famous Quad feature – the Tilt control

First available in 1982 on the classic Quad 34 preamplifier, the Tilt control was created by Quad founder Peter Walker as an audiophile-quality answer to tone adjustment. He believed that in the real world, the ability to adjust the tonal balance on an amplifier was useful to cater for different rooms and recordings, but that typical tone and EQ controls were clumsy and inadequate in their effect. While conventional tone controls adjust bass or treble individually, the Tilt control adjusts both ends of the frequency spectrum together–either attenuating the bass and lifting the treble, or lifting the bass and attenuating the treble, in steps of 1dB.In effect, it rotates–or tilts–the audible frequency rangeona700Hzaxis, adjusting the overall balance of the sound to make it ‘warmer’ or ‘cooler’ without affecting the volume or colouring it

Who is Quad?

Quad are a highly renowned manufacturer of quality hifi electronics and loudspeakers, having developed award-winning audiophile-standard products standard for over 80 years, their highly acclaimed reputation is well-earned. The company originally built speakers for public address, moving onto domestic hifi following the end of the war. The first commercially available products were the Quad 22 Pre-amp and Quad II Monoblock Power Amplifiers, both of which were on the market for ten years to great success.